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To understand keenly the changes that have taken place in popular music over the last decades one need only to listen to Sam Graham tell of the New Year's Eve 1968 concert he attended at the long-gone Kinetic Playground on the North Side. He was 16 and a student at the Latin School (where we were classmates). He does not remember who he was with but he certainly remembers who he saw. "Fleetwood Mac was the opening act," he says. "Then there was Muddy Waters and his band. He was fabulous, not the avuncular, just-happy-to-be-here Muddy of his later years but a more dangerous version. The headliner was the Byrds. They were OK, not great. Fleetwood Mac made a lasting...

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